Liszt: Paraphrases, Etudes D'execution Transcenda

Jorge Bolet

Liszt
CD1
Paraphrases
CD2
Études d'Exécution transcendante

It took a long time before the musical establishment recognised the genius of the great Cuban pianist Jorge Bolet. It was through his recordings for Decca, starting in the Eighties, that the world got to know Bolet's superb interpretations of especially Liszt's piano music. Bolet's playing has a speaking quality in which the music unfolds in eloquent phrases and dramatic gestures in true Belcanto style, maintaining the structural proportions of the music in a most natural way.
Some critics say that Bolet's Decca recordings, whilst presenting the artist in his full maturity, lack the spontaneity and brilliance of his younger years, and Piano Classics is proud to release Bolet's Spanish Ensayo Liszt recordings, in which the young lion of the keyboard shows his abundant temperament and virtuosity in commanding performances of the fearsome Etudes d'exécution transcendante, song transcriptions and opera paraphrases.

Price: $26.98